be in (one's) hands

To be one's responsibility. You're an adult now—the decision to stay home from school is in your hands. I'll never get the promotion if the decision is in Tina's hands—she hates me!

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Dovid	-	Yiddish
Kathy	['kæθi]
Paula	POW-lah (German, Finnish, Spanish, Polish, Croatian), PAWL-ə (English), POW-lə (Portuguese), PAW-oo-law (Hungarian)	German, English, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Romanian, Hungarian, Polish, Dutch, Swedish,
Shmuel	-	Hebrew
Sanjica	SAHN-yee-tsah	Croatian
Damokles	-	Greek Mythology